The Nicodemus enterprise., 1887-08-24

saw mill was burned to the ground WITH con
siderable stock. The loss is unknown. Ihe
marshes all along the road west OF Grand
Rapids, near New Londoa. were on fire, and
considerable damage was done u the burning
| Of several farm buildings and tieliI or gTa1h'
4 special from Portsmouth, Ohio, says the
| iurv in the celebrated case of ALI Mccoy,
| charged with the murder of DIR. Northrup, re-
turned its verdict Monday morning. Mccoy
| is found guilty of murder in the second DC
gree. The crime Of Mccoy was for the killing
| In Nav last, at Haverhill, of DR.. Northrup.
The vicr IN was noted prohibitionist, and II
was claimed that Mccoy, who owned ss-
| loon. felt enInity toward him on that account.
There is much dissatisfaction with the YER
| Diet. Tie shooting was dore in daylight on
the street, and of the people regard 1t
worthy capital punishment.
collision of two freight trains occurred
Wednes6 ay on the Burlington and Missourl
rosd between North Bend and Ashland
| Nebrasks. Both engines and thirteen cars
were thrown OVER the embankment into the
North Platte river. Two tramps stealing 9
ride were killed. The engineers and tiremen
escaped by jumping. The cause OF the acc
! dent evidently lays with the train dispatcher
The train coming was regular freight ano
had orders to meet an extra at Ashland The
extra going east also had orders to meet the
regular at North Bend They met on curve
At the rivers bend and the collision was
terrible.
Pending an appea, of his case to the So
preme court, Paul GrottA au, the anarcflse ed'
tor of the Arbeiter Zeitung who was cohV'c''
ed of melting labor riots here last year an'
sentenced to one years imprisonll' en'' was
released on bail. Alarmed by the rept u tua'
e was abou, 10 fee to Germany, his boz US
men Tuesday surrendered him to the sherif
Trouble is the result of the row in
which the entire socialist section l.
concerned, the leaders If which are having q
lively rumpus among themselves. Grottksu
viii have to remain in jail until the supreme
curt arrives at decision, which will not BE-
sooner than November.
John Beall, thirteen years old, who has bet n
Az Jo1A Ella NCChS ENbOI3 OuiOy OH tit
charge of killing his mother, has made con-
fesston, in which he says he did the deed On
June IA this boy was at home with his mother
and about O'Clock alarmed the neighbors BY
saying three tramps had killed his mother
when he was asleep, but awakened in time to
see them leaving with some money and Il
watch. The boy had shot his mother twice
snd then nearly beheaded her with an axe
No motive for the crime can be assigned, ex.
cept he was angry at what seemed to him to
be evidences of favori SIN shown to his sister
by his mother.
The Maxwell Land Grant company has sub
mitted to settlers on that grant, who are
nearly all cattlemen, proposition to buy
them out in the form of an agreement be-
tween the company and the settlers, which is
being generously signed, and promises to
SOLVE the difficulty now existing. 1t is agreed |
that the company shall deposit $4,000 at the |
at the disposal of j. B. Dawson to be used in |
carrying out the agreement. The settlers will |
then at once begin to gather, brand and de-
liver their cattle to NJ. NJ. Pes, agent OF the |
for which will be paid, en- delivery.
30 head, delivery to include everything,
even this years. calves, and SIG head more
D. May Is, 1883. Five per cent. of S2I head
will be deducted for winter loss on cattle de
1vered this fall. Cows and calves If 1883 are
o be counted only as one head within sixtv
lays after the cattle have all been delivered.
There are between 5000 and 100, 900 head of
attic on the grant.